WEBVTT JENNIFER TODAY, WE LEARNED THAT: IN ADDITION TO THAT TEENAGER,WHO WAS SHOT IN THE SHOULDER,THERE WAS ALSO A SECOND VICTIMIN SATURDAY'S SHOOTING ONCARONDELET, WITH ANOTHER PERSONSHOT IN THE ARM THAT'S AFTERPOLICE SAY A FIGHT AT THEPARADE, SPIRALLED OUT OFCONTROWE'VE GOT EXCLUSIVE VIDEO TOSHOW YOU WHAT HAPPENED.EXCLUSIVE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO OFA TERRIFYING SCENE SATURDAYNIGHT.A CROWD RUNNING DOWN CARONDELETTOWARD HOWARD.AND THEN IN THE HIGHLIGHTEDVIDEO ON YOUR SCREEN, THE FLASHOF GUNFIRE.SECONDS LATER POLICE ARE INPURSUIT.WDSU WAS THE ONLY NEWS CREW ONTHE SCENE, IN THOSE FIRSTMOMENTS.WHERE MAYHEM MIXED WITH THESOUNDS OF A DISTANCE PARADE.NOPD SUPERINTENDENT, MICHAELHARRISON, TOLD US THE SHOOTINGON CARONDELET STARTED AS A FIGHTON ST. CHARLES AS PYGMALAINPASSED>> RIGHT THERE WHERE OFFICERSWERE PRESENT, DESPITE ERECTED.WE BROKE UP THE FIGHT.SUBJECTS BEGAN TO RUN.WE PURSUED THEM, HEARD THEGUNSHOTS, FOUND THE VICITM WHOCOLLAPSED BY THE CIRCLE K ANDTHEN WE FOUND THE SCENE.JENNIFER: TWO PEOPLE WERE HURT.A 17-YEAR-OLD SHOT IN THESHOULDER, ANOTHER PERSON, SHOTIN THE ARM.>> WE ARE REALLY LOOKING FORANYONE WHO SAW SOMETHING, WHOKNEW SOMETHING AND WE KNOW THATTHEY DID BECAUSE MANY PEOPLEWERE RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLEOF THIS FIGHT AND WERE RUNNINGRIGHT WHEN THIS HAPPENED.JENNIFER: THE AREA WHERE THATFIGHT HAPPENED IS STAFFEDHEAVILY WITH OFFICERS DURINGMARDI GRAS, BECAUSE THIS HASHAPPENED HERE BEFORE.IN 2015 21-YEAR-OLD PETER DABNEYAND 22-YEAR-OLD IVAN WILLIAMSDIED WHEN THEY WERE SHOT HEREDURING THE MUSES PARADE.20-YEAR-OLD JOHN HICKS CONVICTEDOF MANSLAUGHTER IN THE CASE.>> IT'S REALLY SAD BECAUSE IT'SNOT LIKE IT USED TO BE YEARSAGO.YEARS AGO YOU COME OUT HERE, YOUHAVE FUN AND STAY OUT ALL NIGHT.TIMES HAVE CHANGED.YOU CAN'T EVEN STEP ONSOMEBODY'S TOES AND SAY OH I'MSORRY EXCUSE ME.YOU MIGHT GET SHOT.JENNIFER: CROWDS RETURNED BUTSUNDAY, SOME, WITH A WARY EYE >> I KEEP MY KIDS RIGHT UNDER MEAND I BE RIGHT ON THEIR SIDE JENNIFER: OTHERS, SAY THEY'VESIMPLY HAD ENOUGH, JENNIFER: LEAVE YOUR GUNS ANDPISTOLS AT HOME BECAUSE THE COPSARE OUT HERE.JENNIFER: AND HE'S RIGHT THERE, ARE COPS OUT THERE.AND EVEN LAS NIGHT THEY WERETHERE.

The video, recorded around 8:45 p.m., shows a crowd running down Carondelet Street toward Howard Avenue. In the midst of the chaos, the flash of gunfire can be seen.

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The person with the gun is wearing dark clothing, but can clearly be seen silhouetted in front of a white moving truck. The video shows the person running with the gun raised and shooting at least two times. Moments before the gunshots, another person in a light-colored shirt appears to motion to the shooter and points in the direction that the shots were fired.

Seconds later, police officers can be seen running to the scene on foot with mounted patrol officers on horses also in pursuit. Two people were injured in Saturday night's gunfire. Police said a 17-year-old was shot in the shoulder and another person was shot in the bicep. Both are expected to recover, police said.

New Orleans police Chief Michael Harrison said Saturday night that initial reports show the gunfire stemmed from a fight that happened on the parade route as the Krewe of Pygmalion rolled toward Lee Circle.

“There was a fight that erupted on St. Charles Avenue, but on the opposite side from the parade, on the non-parade side of the route,” Harrison said. “Our officers were right there on the spot. We had many officers right there. There were subjects who began to run toward Lee Circle down Calliope toward Carondelet. As those subjects were running, we heard gunfire coming from the area of Carondelet and the Circle K. Our officers proceeded to the Circle K where they found a victim who actually collapsed on the other side of the Exxon Circle K near Lee Circle.”

The area where that fight happened was identified as a potential trouble spot by the Police Department and staffed heavily with officers during Mardi Gras, Harrison said.

In 2015, a shooting very close to the location of the fight was deadly. Peter Dabney, 21, and Ivan Williams, 22, died when they were shot there during the Muses parade. In 2016, then 20-year-old John Hicks was convicted of manslaughter in the case.

New Orleans police have not identified any suspects in Saturday’s shooting, although Harrison said he believed the shooter and at least one of the victims knew each other. He is appealing to the public for help.

“We are really looking for anyone who saw something, who knew something, Harrison said. “We know that they did because many people were right there in the middle of this fight and were running right when this happened.”

Anyone with information about Saturday night's shooting can call Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.